Ostrowski Prize
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The Ostrowski Prize is a mathematics award given every odd year for outstanding mathematical achievement judged by an international jury from the universities of Basel, Jerusalem, Waterloo and the academies of Denmark and the Netherlands. Alexander Ostrowski, a longtime professor at the University of Basel, left his estate to the foundation in order to establish a prize for outstanding achievements in pure mathematics and the foundations of numerical mathematics. It currently carries a monetary award of 100,000 Swiss francs.
Its recipients are:
- 1989: Louis de Branges (France / USA)
- 1991: Jean Bourgain (Belgium)
- 1993: Miklós Laczkovich (Hungary) and Marina Ratner (Russia / USA)
- 1995: Andrew J. Wiles (UK)
- 1997: Yuri V. Nesterenko (Russia) and Gilles I. Pisier (France)
- 1999: Alexander A. Beilinson (Russia / USA) and Helmut H. Hofer (Switzerland / USA)
- 2001: Henryk Iwaniec (Poland / USA) and Peter Sarnak (South Africa / USA) and Richard L. Taylor (UK / USA)
- 2003: Paul Seymour (UK)
- 2005: Ben Green (UK) and Terence Tao (Australia / USA)
- 2007: Oded Schramm (Israel / USA)
- 2009: Sorin Popa (Romania / USA)
- 2011: Ib Madsen (Denmark), David Preiss (UK) and Kannan Soundararajan (India / USA)
- 2013: Yitang Zhang (USA)
- 2015: Peter Scholze (Germany)[1]